Acquiring the Past for the Future: The South Carolina Heritage Trust Statewide Assessment of Cultural Sites

The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology received a grant from the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History to conduct a statewide assessment of the cultural resources of the state. This report details the results of this one-year study to establish a representative sample of the archaeological and historical resources of the state of South Carolina, to be used by the South Carolina Heritage Trust as a planning tool for the possible acquisition of such sites as Heritage Preserves. A list of the 100 most Critically Significant sites and properties is presented along with the techniques and criteria utilized to establish a 100 site inventory. This list is not carved in stone, rather it reflects the archaeological community\u27s current knowledge of the state\u27s resources. In the future this list will evolve and change; it is flexible. This list is not meant to be anything but a planning tool for the Heritage Trust.https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/archanth_books/1233/thumbnail.jp

Disease escape in relation to a trade off between septoria tritici blotch and yield of wheat

Disease escape in relation to a trade off between septoria tritici blotch and yield of wheat. Zymoseptoria tritici, the fungus that causes Septoria tritici blotch (STB) of wheat, is spread by splash borne transfer from the base of the plant to the flag leaf. This project is on a potential new source of resistance to STB discovered on chromosome 6A using association mapping (Arraiano & Brown 2016). Near isogenic lines generated for this region show no significant differences in STB symptoms when leaves are directly inoculated with Z. tritici. However, trials that are naturally infected or inoculated at the base of the plant show clear differences in their level of STB. This indicated that this region contains genes that cause differences in disease escape. The fact that the same marker Psp3071 is associated with yield traits (Snape et al, 2007) led to the hypothesis that the region may control a physiological trait that improves yield at the cost of aiding spore transmission. Candidate physiological traits, that could influence disease escape, have been tested in the 6A NILs including plant height, leaf area and senescence. The trait that fits with the pattern of the disease results best is leaf emergence, with later emerging leaves getting more STB. However, the effect of the 6A alleles on disease escape may be caused by multiple traits. Recombinant lines generated for the region have reduced the interval that contains the yield traits, though it is still unclear if the disease escape and yield effects are connected by linkage or pleiotropy

Retroperitoneal extramedullary hematopoietic pseudotumor in ataxia-telangiectasia.

Ataxia-telangiectasia confers a significant increase in the development of several cancer types, most commonly leukemia and lymphoma. However, as the natural history for these patients is evolving and their lifespan is increasing, there is the potential for the development of additional uncommon tumors in an already rare patient population. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of an incidental retroperitoneal tumor in a 26-year-old woman undergoing evaluation for hepatic dysfunction. The mass was suspicious for retroperitoneal sarcoma, but proved to be an extramedullary hematopoietic pseudotumor after extensive pathologic evaluation. The changing landscape of neoplasms associated with ataxia-telangiectasia is discussed with emphasis on previously underreported benign and malignant tumors